Johnny Swing began his career in New York City, exhibiting sculpture and furniture fabricated from salvaged industrial materials. Today, he lives and works in Vermont, where his unique artistic process involves welding coins together to create furniture that embraces the ever-changing boundaries between art and everyday life. Butterfly Chair, named for its symmetrical, spread-wing form, envelops its sitter and recalls a traditional wing chair. The sinuous seat, made with 1,500 half-dollar coins, is supported by a tubular stainless steel frame. Before welding a single coin, Swing crafted the biomorphic shapes in polyester resin, to ensure that people could sit comfortably in such unconventional seats. He then draped sections of welded coins on top of the molds, pulling the finished seats off the resin cores once the metal had cooled.